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Gun Owners Enter the Fight of Our Lives

November 15th, 2012

Chris W. Cox

The NRA has been saying
all along that Barack Obama would unleash an assault on our Second
Amendment freedoms if he won a second term. It sure didn't take long for
him to prove us right.

Just hours after Obama won re-election
last Tuesday, his administration endorsed a new effort by the global gun
grabbers at the United Nations to draft a gun ban treaty early next
year. The official starting point for the new talks is last year's
failed draft, which contains provisions that threaten our sovereign
right to keep and bear arms through an international gun registration
scheme.

And not long after Obama floated the idea of banning
semi-automatic firearms, we learned that California Senator Dianne
Feinstein was working with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and
Explosives to draft new legislation that would ban semi-automatic
rifles, shotguns and handguns, so-called "high capacity" magazines, and
rifles and shotguns with pistol grips. Reportedly, Feinstein wants to
make it illegal not just to sell your guns and magazines, but to leave
them behind in your will.

Not surprisingly, the lights had hardly
gone out at Obama's victory celebration last week when gun-hating New
York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, along with his pollster, Frank Luntz,
were conducting push polls to promote government control over every
firearm transfer — including between fathers and sons, and grandfathers
and grandsons.

In Bloomberg's world, a child wouldn't be able to
tear the wrapping paper off his first .22 rifle on Christmas morning
unless Santa Claus had first cleared it with Obama's bureaucrats.

I
know a lot of folks are still down about last week's presidential
election. It's puzzling how so many Americans can tell pollsters that
the country is on the wrong track, then vote to keep the same guy
driving the train.

But this isn't the first time in history when
gun owners and NRA members have faced a difficult challenge, and it
won't be the first time we've risen to the occasion and come out
victorious. The Second Amendment wouldn't be alive today if it wasn't
for the courage of tens of millions of gun owners and freedom-loving
Americans across our nation, and throughout our history.

As long
as dedicated patriots continue to band together and fight as though
freedom itself is on the line — because it is — we will defend the
Second Amendment in Obama's second term and save it for generations to
come.

For gun owners, the next four years won't just be the fight
of our lives, it will be a fight for the future of our nation. We're
ready to lead the charge.